''Marriages Forbidden'' (german: Heiraten verboten) is a 1957 West German
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Heinz Paul
Heinz Paul (13 August 1893 – 14 March 1983) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director. He was married to the actress Hella Moja.
Selected filmography Director
* ''The Street of Forgetting'' (1923)
* ''The Dice Game of Life'' (1925) ...
and starring
Ingeborg Cornelius
Ingeborg Cornelius (born 1930) is an Austrian stage and film actress.Goble p.173 She appeared in a number of heimatfilm during the 1950s, having been discovered by the producer Peter Ostermayr.
Selected filmography
* ''The Violin Maker of Mitten ...
,
Helga Franck
Helga Franck (1933–February 1963) was a German stage and film actress.Körner p.368
Having appeared in a number of 1950s film productions, including the 1957 heimatfilm ''Marriages Forbidden'', her career was cut short when she accidentally f ...
and
Siegfried Breuer
Siegfried Breuer (24 June 1906 – 1 February 1954) was an Austrian stage and film actor and occasional film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Vienna, Siegried was the son of Hans Breuer (1868 or 1870–1929), who was an opera s ...
.
[Höfig p.343] It was one of many
heimatfilm
' (, German for "homeland-films"; German singular: ') were films of a genre popular in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. ''Heimat'' can be translated as "home" (in the geographic sense), "hometown" or "homela ...
made during the decade.
The film's sets were designed by the
art directors
Hans Ledersteger
Hans Ledersteger (1898–1971) was an Austrian art director who worked for many years in the German film industry. While mainly employed in Germany, he occasionally also worked in other countries such as Italy and his native Austria including on ...
and
Ernst Richter
Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter (24 October 18089 April 1879), was a German musical theorist and composer, born at Großschönau, Saxony.
He first studied music at Zittau, and afterwards at Leipzig, where he attained so high a reputation that in ...
.
Cast
References
Bibliography
* Willi Höfig. ''Der deutsche Heimatfilm 1947–1960''. 1973.
External links
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1957 films
1957 comedy films
German comedy films
West German films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Heinz Paul
Films based on Austrian novels
1950s German films
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